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The Private Life of Marie Antoinette by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan 9781845886387
RRP: £18.99£14.72In one of the earliest memoirs of the young Queen of France, Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan - Marie Antoinette's First Lady-in-Waiting and one of her closest and most faithful attendants - paints a dramatic portrait of the queen's personal and political... -
His Excellency: George Washington by University Joseph J Ellis
RRP: £20.00£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032532Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes by Patrick Delaforce 9781781550731
RRP: £12.99£10.02Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to restore to greatness. Adolf Hitler: The Curious and... -
Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend by Joann Fletcher 9780060585594
RRP: £18.99£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060585594Author Joann FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Churchill: Military Genius or Menace? by Stephen Napier
RRP: £17.99£13.64Churchill has gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. From the day the Second World War was declared he stood out as the only man wanting to take offensive action. But is this accolade deserved? The first few years... -
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne 9780062310774
RRP: £14.99£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062310774Author Paula ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier by Robert M. Utley 9780806133874
RRP: £18.95£15.09George Armstrong Custer. The name evokes instant recognition in almost every American and in people around the world. No figure in the history of the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination. When originally published in 1988,... -
The Miniaturists by Barbara Browning 9781478018919
RRP: £16.99£14.44In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of... -
Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom by Clarence Darrow
RRP: £24.00£21.10A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as... -
Custer by Larry McMurtry 9781451626216
RRP: £20.00£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626216Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 276mm *... -
The Trials of Annie Oakley by Howard Kazanjian 9781493017461
RRP: £18.99£16.18Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot... -
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox 9780345510785
RRP: £21.00£14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345510785Author Julia FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence by Harlow Giles Unger
RRP: £22.99£17.20Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication,... -
Cromwell's Captains: Four Great Englishmen by C E Lucas Phillips 9781800551855
RRP: £15.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800551855Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir by Clarence B. Jones 9781952485930
RRP: £31.95£24.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952485930Author Clarence B. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Redhawk PublicationsPublisher Redhawk Publications -
Murders on Alcatraz by George Devincenzi 9780692202289
RRP: £19.95£15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692202289Author George DevincenziFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint RockPublisher RockWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm -
A Prophet in His Own Country: A Biography of Henry Lilley Smith, MRCS, (1788-1859), Surgeon, of Southam, Warwickshire by Alastair Robson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Henry Lilley Smith (1788-1859) was born and bred in Southam, Warwickshire. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon-apothecary, he attended Guy's Hospital (where he was a 'surgical dresser' to the distinguished Guy's surgeon Sir Astley Cooper). After a... -
Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
RRP: £14.99£10.95The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point,... -
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic by Jim DeRogatis
£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767905091Author Jim DeRogatisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie by Barry Gough 9780806130026
£19.12Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789... -
From Smuggling to Cotton Kings - The Greg Story by Michael Janes 9780956510228
RRP: £12.99£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956510228Author Michael JanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm... -
Epicurus and His Influence on History by Ben Gazur 9781399073523
RRP: £22.00£15.62How should we live? In ancient Greece one man came up with a pleasingly simple answer to this question. The philosopher Epicurus taught his followers that pleasure and contentment were the aims of the good life. For hundreds of years Epicureanism was... -
The Man Who Returned From The Dead by John M. Myers 9780718184964 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.78Hugh Glass was left to die. AttackedWhilst hunting in the fur-rich, Native American-held territory of the Upper Missouri River, Hugh Glass was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear. Hundreds of miles away from help; his fellow hunters were unable to... -
The Quartet: Care Lives of Irish Catholic Homeboys by John Michael Murphy 9780995532816
£15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995532816Author John Michael MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Crooked Scythe PressPublisher Crooked Scythe Press -
John Randolph of Roanoke by David Johnson 9780807143971
£43.42One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his... -
The Truth of the Ancient Ways: A Critical Biography of the Swordsman Yamaoka Tesshu by Anatoliy Anshin 9780984012909
RRP: £8.20£7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984012909Author Anatoliy AnshinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Kodenkan InstitutePublisher Kodenkan InstituteWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
It Rained at Harvest Time: Memoirs of the Forever Prairie by Reta Evens Simons 9780999267202
£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999267202Author Reta Evens SimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint ReaskPublisher ReaskWeight(grams) 417g -
Alexander the Great: The Biography of a Bloody Macedonian King and Conquirer; Strategy, Empire and Legacy by United Library 9789493311343
RRP: £11.99£8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493311343Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor by Marguerite Holloway 9780393347906
RRP: £12.99£11.46John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and... -
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography by Kathryn Cullen-DuPont 9780815410157
RRP: £18.99£14.72Story of a remarkable life and the history of a movement.Book InformationISBN 9780815410157Author Kathryn Cullen-DuPontFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection by John Man 9780312366247
RRP: £27.99£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312366247Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
The Soong Sisters by Emily Hahn 9781497648708
RRP: £19.95£15.75"If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing." -The New York Times Book Review In the early twentieth century, few women in China were... -
Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution by Mark Puls 9780230614000
RRP: £13.99£13.09Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award! Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political... -
Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún by Soledad Fox Maura
RRP: £25.99£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729177Author Soledad Fox MauraFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky 9780199934867
RRP: £28.49£18.56The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual... -
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried 9780804140089
RRP: £17.99£16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for George Washington Book Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780804140089Author Stephen FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of... -
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Professor of English Elaine Showalter 9781451645910
RRP: £18.00£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645910Author Professor of English Elaine ShowalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
A Pioneer in Yokohama: A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port by C. T. van Assendelft de Coningh 9781603848367
RRP: £15.99£13.36In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a... -
Captain James Carlin: Anglo-American Blockade Runner by Colin Carlin
£32.62Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833-1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy's blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his... -
The Duke of Lennox, 1574-1624: A Jacobean Courtier's Life by David M. Bergeron 9781399500456
RRP: £19.99£16.42A biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and England Provides an overview of the politics and culture of Scottish and English life in the Stuart period Uses rich archival, manuscript...